Hermione must be stopped/Snape's half truths in "Spinner's End"

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 149635


Magpie:

> She can certainly cause trouble, but I 
> see no reason to make her the person who inspired Snape's biggest 
> mistake ever.  Yes, she is going to dig until she can take back 
> something to LV in this scene.  This makes her an inconvenience to 
> Snape, but there's, imo, little drama to her bringing him down 
> completely without any big relationship between them that we know [...] 
> I can't see Snape risking his life over her.

houyhnhnm:

I don't understand.  Why does there have to be a relationship between
them? If she can bring down DD's only known spy in Voldemort's camp,
then she's a threat to DD, the Order, Hogwarts, Harry, the defeat of
LV, and the whole Wizarding World.  This is not enough to risk one's
life over?

Magpie:

> Us seeing it makes all the difference, though.

houyhnhnm:

Why?  Sirius turns up (his head anyway) in GoF with shorter hair.  We
don't have to see him getting a haircut to make the reasonable
assumption that he did so.